Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 58 81
Rank change year-on-year +31 +23 +39
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 141 63 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.09% 3.73% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 3.99% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 41 33
10th Percentile £413 £413 £401
25th Percentile £503 £465 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -14.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £684 £638 £680
90th Percentile £874 £750 £728
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,963 1,580 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.76% 93.60% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 993 1,378
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.96%) Confluence
2 6 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.13%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.42%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.71%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.71%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.99%) Azure
2 19 (13.48%) AWS
3 18 (12.77%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.38%) GCP
5 7 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.96%) SaaS
6 5 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.84%) Serverless
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.13%) Collibra
8 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.13%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.42%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Firewall
1 1 (0.71%) NAS
1 1 (0.71%) Network Security
1 1 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.22%) Power BI
2 5 (3.55%) Metadata
3 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.42%) Big Data
4 2 (1.42%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.42%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.42%) Tableau
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.71%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.71%) Power Query
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (14.18%) JIRA
2 1 (0.71%) GitLab
2 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 63 (44.68%) Finance
2 58 (41.13%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (16.31%) Banking
5 14 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.55%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Front Office
7 4 (2.84%) Legal
7 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.42%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.42%) Military
9 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (21.99%) Analyst
2 22 (15.60%) Architect
2 22 (15.60%) Business Analyst
3 17 (12.06%) Lead
4 14 (9.93%) Project Manager
4 14 (9.93%) Senior
5 8 (5.67%) Consultant
6 7 (4.96%) Data Analyst
6 7 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (4.26%) Security Architect
7 6 (4.26%) Senior Manager
8 5 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Security Manager
8 5 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (3.55%) Strategy Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Strategy Manager
9 4 (2.84%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.55%) LangChain
2 4 (2.84%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.42%) PySpark
3 2 (1.42%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.42%) REST
3 2 (1.42%) Spring
3 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.42%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.71%) .NET
4 1 (0.71%) JSON
4 1 (0.71%) Kafka
4 1 (0.71%) Next.js
4 1 (0.71%) Pandas
4 1 (0.71%) Playwright
4 1 (0.71%) React
4 1 (0.71%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.26%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.55%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.42%) Derivative
8 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.42%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.71%) Blog
9 1 (0.71%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.71%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.42%) Linux
1 2 (1.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
2 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.40%) Agile
2 29 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (18.44%) Migration
5 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (16.31%) AI
6 23 (16.31%) Analytics
6 23 (16.31%) Decision-Making
7 20 (14.18%) Roadmaps
8 18 (12.77%) Project Delivery
9 17 (12.06%) DevOps
10 16 (11.35%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (11.35%) Project Management
11 15 (10.64%) Change Management
11 15 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (9.93%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (9.22%) CI/CD
13 13 (9.22%) Risk Management
13 13 (9.22%) Validation
13 13 (9.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.80%) SQL
2 9 (6.38%) Python
3 4 (2.84%) Java
4 3 (2.13%) Bicep
4 3 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.42%) C#
5 2 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.42%) Korn
5 2 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.71%) C++
6 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.71%) Scala
6 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.38%) Degree
4 4 (2.84%) PMP
5 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.42%) CEH
6 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.71%) ACCA
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.71%) CFA
7 1 (0.71%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.71%) CIMA
7 1 (0.71%) CISA
7 1 (0.71%) CISM
7 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.35%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.22%) QA
3 9 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.67%) NIST
5 6 (4.26%) GDPR
6 5 (3.55%) PMO
7 4 (2.84%) NCSC
8 3 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (2.13%) SLA
9 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.42%) GRC
9 2 (1.42%) ISO 20022
9 2 (1.42%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.71%) COBIT
10 1 (0.71%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.71%) IFRS
10 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) NFS
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.84%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.84%) Terraform
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (0.71%) vMotion
Vendors
1 31 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.67%) Databricks
3 7 (4.96%) SAP
3 7 (4.96%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.13%) Charles River
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle
5 2 (1.42%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.42%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.42%) Remedy
6 1 (0.71%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.71%) Avature
6 1 (0.71%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.71%) IFS
6 1 (0.71%) Planon
6 1 (0.71%) Pure Storage
6 1 (0.71%) Qualtrics
6 1 (0.71%) VMware
6 1 (0.71%) Workday